New England Extension Food Safety Consortium promotes a collaboratively developed site promoting web-based resources for starting out as well as working with other regional institutions for information for new food businesses.

Northeast Center for Food Entrepreneurship - The Center provides comprehensive assistance to beginning and established food entrepreneurs, promoting sustainable economic development of rural communities. The center provides product assistance, regulatory and limited business and marketing information.

The Small Business Resource is designed to help business owners and entrepreneurs solve problems and locate key public and private organizations and individuals. These are business decision makers - businessmen and women looking to expand their operations, relocate companies and plan a business start-up.

Western Massachusetts Food Processing Center - The facility is a State Board of Health, NOFA Massachusetts and USDA-approved shared-use, commercial kitchen facility. The facility is operated as a nonprofit agency. For more information, contact Herb Heller, manager, at 413-774-7204, ext. 108.

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